Ballywalter

22 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballywalter, from 89 m² to 205,290 m² (20.53 ha, 50.73 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 8 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Ballywalter in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 19 Sept 2025Conditional

  Full Planning Permission is being sought to construct a private dwelling house, proprietary effluent treatment unit, percolation area and domestic garage along with all associated services

  Permission, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 2560650

• 15 Oct 2024N/a

  Section 5 Declaration: 53km of cattle fencing along waterways throughout the Lough Carra Catchment Area

  Permission · Mayo County Council, 24426

• 9 Sept 2019Conditional

  RETAIN AND COMPLETE THE EXISTING PARTIALLY CONSTRUCTED DWELLINGHOUSE, UPGRADED PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT TREATMENT UNIT AND PERCOLATION AREA TO SERVE BOTH THE PARTIALLY CONSTRUCTED DWELLINGHOUSE AND THE EXISTING DWELLINGHOUSE ON THE SITE AS A GRANNY FLAT ASSOCIATED WITH THE PARTIALLY CONSTRUCTED DWELLINGHOUSE, ALL REVISED BOUNDARIES FROM THAT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER P00/2652 ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SERVICES

  Retention, 1 home · Mayo County Council, 19707

• 11 Dec 2018N/a

  RETAIN AND COMPLETE THE EXISTING PARTIALLY CONSTYRUCTED DWELLING HOUSE AND PROVIDE A PROPRIETARY EFFLUENT UNIT AND PERCOLATION AREA ON REVISED BOUNDARIES FROM THAT PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER P00/2652 ALONG WITH ALL ASSOCIATED SERVICES

  Retention · Mayo County Council, 18991

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ballywalter.

Recorded monuments

• MA110-027001 Church
  Description

  In rough pasture. Much-ruined rectangular church (6.5m N-S; 11.2m E-W), missing E, S and W walls. Portion of N wall survives (H 2.1m; Wth 0.9m). Children's burial ground (MA110-027003-) and holy well (MA110-027002-) nearby. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 604. Date of upload: 28 October 2013

• MA110-027002 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  In rough pasture, immediately W of church (MA110-027001-). A natural spring, with loose stone to E; water flows into W running ditch. Dedicated to Saint Lugna. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 646. Date of upload: 28 October 2013

• MA110-027003 Children's burial ground
  Description

  In rough pasture, just S of church (MA110-027001-). Irregular area (14m N-S; 15m E-W), bounded by trees to W, contains c. 100 low grave markers. Heavily overgrown. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 665. Date of upload: 28 October 2013

• MA110-085001 Ringfort - cashel
  Description

  In rough pasture, on S-facing slope, on a slight rise. Subcircular area (39.5m N-S; 37.5m E-W), enclosed by ruined wall of large boulders (H 0.3m, Wth 0.5m); original facing survives apart from short intervals in E. Stands on a bank of earth and stone (Wth 5m; H 0.7m). Wall and interior heavily overgrown. Depression (diam. 4.5m; D 0.3) on W half, possible souterrain (MA110-085002-). Structure (4.4m N-S; 7m E-W; H .5m) in centre of interior, possible hut site (MA110-085003-). The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 252. Date of upload: 30 October 2013

• MA110-085002 Souterrain
  Description

  In W half of cashel (MA110-085001-). Depression (L 4.5m; Wth 1m; D 0.3m), with stone protruding, may have been a souterrain. The above description has been derived from D. Lavelle (compiler), An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District including Lough Mask and Lough Carra. Lough Mask and Lough Carra Tourist Development Association (1994), No. 539. Date of upload: 30 October 2013

• MA110-085003 Hut site
  Description

  An Archaeological Survey of Ballinrobe and District (Lavelle 1994, p. 41, no. 252) records that in the centre of a cashel (MA110-085001-) there is a possible hut site (4.4m N-S; 7m E-W; H 0.5m).

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ballywalter.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Radon

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballywalter.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Ballywalter with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Mayo.

Name

Ballywalter · Baile Mhic Ualtair

Area

740,335 m² (74.03 ha, 182.94 acres)

Civil parish

Robeen, and its townlands

Barony

Kilmaine

Electoral division

Newbrook, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Newbrook electoral division: 554 people in 201 households; 92% of households own their home; 28% of homes were built since 2001; 12% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Coolylaughnan, Cornfield, Liskilleen

Placenames

Ballywalter on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address; old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.